“There are 12 games left to play – we will lose some of those because we have some tough fixtures, many of whom are above us.

“But, at the moment, we’ve had two magnificent back-to-back wins and we will enjoy this.

“Our goal is to stay in the Premier League and get ourselves a third successive season.

“I would suggest, on the evidence of the last couple of games, that we’re on track. It’s now 11 points plus goal difference.

“You don’t talk about teams who are tenth being 11 points behind the Europa League spot, so I don’t think we need to be worrying too much to be asking questions about being in the relegation zone when we’re 11 points, effectively 12, ahead of those sides who are in the drop zone.

“There are 12 games left to play and those teams at the bottom haven’t got an average of one point per game so those clubs below us will need to make up a lot of points if they want to catch us.”